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Changing Behaviour is a project that aims to support change in energy use and energy services. We do so by applying social research on technological change to practical use. Our focus is on the interaction between energy experts and energy users: How can these different groups learn to understand each other better?

Changing Behaviour is an action research project. Researchers and practitioners work together to develop, test and refine tools for improved interaction that are sensitive to context, timing and the needs of different users and stakeholders.

Changing Behaviour is a European project that is funded by the EU 7th Framework Programme Energy theme (contract number: 213217). The project partners are from Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands and the UK.

Last summer, CHANGING BEHAVIOUR hosted a competition for slogans, maxims, sayings and 'bons mots' that reflect the best insights in an emerging culture of energy saving practice. Our jury picked the 12 best slogans, which are:

The sure way to predict the future is to invent it.

One good action repeated a million times creates global change.

Energy efficiency is a journey, not a destination.

Less energy consumed today, more resources left for our children!

Nothing is permanent (Buddha): If you are promoting change, you need to first see the change that is ongoing.

Energy saving can become a common practice if you show people how others are doing it.

Give your car a holiday!

If you do not have what you need to change, then change what you need.

The first public version of MECHanisms, the Make Energy Change Happen toolkit is now publicly available!

For this final version, we received valuable feedback from a group of expert users - companies, NGOs and public agencies promoting energy efficiency and conservation - at our Toolkit Clinic in Duesseldorf, October 12th. Twelve people from seven different countries tested MECHanisms on their own projects gave us comments on the necessary finishing touches. Overall, they found MECHanisms useful for their work and felt it gave them good ideas.

Ruth Mourik from ECN has been taking CHANGING BEHAVIOUR on a grand tour of New Zealand. She gave presentations at the Kordia Innovation Engine in Auckland, at an energy behaviour workshop organized by EECA and for the Energy Industry Round Table in Wellington as well as at the Technical University in Auckland. CHANGING BEHAVIOUR has had a longstanding co-operation with EECA, the New Zealand Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority and we also received valuable feedback from EECA staff for the development of the MECHanisms toolkit.

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